Professor Rayfuse (LLB Queen’s; LLM Cambridge; PhD Utrecht; LLD h.c. Lund, FASSA) is Emerita Scientia Professor in international law at UNSW Law and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg.
She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Member of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Protection of the Marine Environment (GESAMP), the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea-Level Rise, and is designated as an arbitrator under Article 2 of the Schedule to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Madrid Protocol). Professor Rayfuse specialises in Public International Law and the Law of the Sea and has published widely on issues of oceans governance, protection of the marine environment in areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the normative effects of climate change on international law with particular emphasis on high seas fisheries, climate change and the oceans, and polar oceans governance.
[November 2023]